23 April 2013

Is this thing on?

Part of my online hiatus was the dreaded "Real Life" raid boss. I pulled too much aggro -- Work, Volunteer, Family -- at the same time and they combined to wipe me. Another part of it is an annual down-cycle; late February and March are a rough time for me. Some years are easier than others, but this year was rough.
But, I can't place all the blame for my sabbatical on Real Life. A large reason for being AFK has just been plain apathy within the game of Warcraft. I haven't been doing much in the game, so I don't have much to write about from my game experiences. I've struggled to actually care about anything current (5.2 is totally foreign to me - I'm still digesting 5.0 and 5.1!) in the game.

Let's quickly break down my WoW status:

I'm not on a progression raid team by choice.

I'm exalted with all the base MoP (patch 5.0 and 5.1) factions (except for a few Tillers and Nat Pagle, but who has time to fish enough to get chummy with Nat?)

I've done more daily quests than I ever want to do again.

Pet Battling is an occasional past-time, but no longer as addictive as it was.

I don't have a PVP set, and if I want abuse I can queue for heroic 5 mans; I don't need to be the squishy on the BG.

I may run an occasional LFR, but I'm not confident in my command of the class mechanics and I'm unwilling to spend the time to min/max with sites like Elitist Jerks to squeeze every last ounce of DPS from my character. As a result, I'm shy to queue for an LFR.

I've got one level 90 with an iLevel even high enough for LFR; the prospect of repeating all that rep grind and gear grinds on alt 90s is overwhelming.

I don't mean to be negative, as I still love playing WoW. I'm just doing other stuff than most of the bloggers are writing about.

I'm gearing my new 90s via scenarios rather than instances. Less stress, shorter queues and I simply enjoy the scenarios.

I'm leveling alts. I had seven 85s in Cataclysm. I'm up to three 90s in MoP. Time to pass some love along to some other toons.

So...
I'm going to attempt to put organize the events I enjoy doing and post 'em up to OpenRaid to see who else may be into the same stuff I'm into. I've even started a new guild called <Swiss Cheesements>- on Borean Tundra (US) as well as on OpenRaid - with the express purpose of doing 'outdated' achievements. The first event is planned for 5 May and it's an all Death Knight 25m raid on ICC(H). Can you just imagine 25 Armies of the Dead swarming a boss? I can't wait!

Some of the excitement is back and I'm looking forward to seeing how this part plays out.

4 comments:

I also love OpenRaid thanks to you (post from ages ago). However, I am now trying to farm for transmog gear which is really hard as nobody is running HBot/BWD atm at times which I can go :( Glad to see you back Chris, have missed you, though I see you online more these days than I used to.

I also have calmed down from my pet battle frenzy but the collector is still in full swing. I think I'm glad though, because it was driving me nuts.

Apathy! that's the word I've been looking for too - I'm in an almost identical place to you I think - 3 90's but only 1 just at LFR level, too scared to even try LFR, virtually no guildies around, pet battling never got addictive for me & Feb/March is my worst time too!

I haven't thought of trying the EU Open Raid either - it all seems like too much effort right now but I should - I never finished ICC or even started Firelands! That would be good to see my achieve points climbing again!